Now that I have a good idea of the course I will be creating, I’ve decided to being developing the interactions that will be used in my course. I’ve decided to use the interaction types Anderson’s outlines in his article Towards a Theory of Online Learning (Pg 58), including;

• Learner to Learner
• Learner to Content
• Content to Content
• Teacher to Content
• Teacher to Teacher, and
• Teacher to Learner

I will facilitate this interaction types using the following communications tools on Moodle.

Learner to Learner– Learners will be able to interact with on another through the use of discussion forms, email, chat (I need to investigate the Moodle Chat function more) and a wiki where they will write about a work of art and their peers will be able to add content.

Learner to Content– Learners will interact with course content through, online resources (articles, videos) and assignments aimed at helping learners research information for assignments.

Content to Content– At this point, I won’t be adding this type of interaction. I’m not sure that there is any content that I can use which will automatically refresh itself.

Teacher to Content– As the teacher, I will be responsible for updating and review content in the course.

Teacher to Teacher– For the purposes of this assignment, I will not be focusing on this type of interaction as this is a very contained example course introduction.

Teacher to Learner– In this course, I will provide asynchronous interactions through discussion boards and email. I will also look at stating the acceptable communication methods and response times in the course description. I will also investigate developing a synchronous interaction method using the chat function, which again I will need to investigate.

Anderson, T. (2008a). Towards a theory of online learning. In T. Anderson & F. Elloumi (Eds.), Theory and practice of online learning. Edmonton AB: Athabasca University.